a football team won 3 more games than it lost.the team played 11 games.how many did it win? Let wins be w. Let losses be l. We're given two equations: w = l + 3 l + w = 11 Plug equation (1) into equation (2) to solve for l: l + (l + 3) = 11 Group like terms: 2l + 3 = 11 Typing this equation into our search engine, we get: l = 4 To solve for w, we plug in l = 4 above into equation (1): w = 4 + 3 w = 7